Price of cinema

superconor

Is it just me or is a trip to the cinema ridiculously expensive,
as a ticket costs £4:25 (or so) and a small drink is £1:15 and small popcorn around the same. is it as bad in your area?

Victor

It's about €8 in Dublin.

Giblet

7:50, and its 675 for a large popcorn and coke (thats a special deal)

weemcd

i live in armagh and the cinema is a **** hole, any time of day is £4:50 and after 12 it's £5:00, i wouldnt mind that if it was a good cinema, but thers crap seats, staff, food, sound and the screen is tiny, thers also only 4 screens!!!! if i go to newry it could be half the price and 3 times the quality, and yo ucan go somewhere for a bite to eat after, armagh doesnt have that it's a hole!

Makaveli

Ticket costs €5.05 at student rate in the Ormonde in Stillorgan. Not too bad. I just bring in a bottle of coke or something to save on the drinks.

sceptre

€7.50 in Limerick

A fiver if you're a student, buy your ticket before 8pm and limit yourself to going Monday to Thursday.

(at least Cork cinemas will sell student tickets at weekends)

Fry

I read before that cinemas actually dont get alot from the ticket sales, they only make profit from the snacks.........a what a bloody profit btw!!

therecklessone

I went to Ster Century one day, can't remember what to see. After paying for the film, drink+popcorn, and two trips over M50 toll bridge, I had feck all change out of €20.

Now thats an expensive two hours entertainment!

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by Fry
I read before that cinemas actually dont get alot from the ticket sales, they only make profit from the snacks.........a what a bloody profit btw!!

Threadkiller gave an incredibly informative post on a thread called The Business of Cinema in Dublin which explained all about how cinemas make their money. I think everyone who's interested in this thread should read his post.

kmart6

Its 7euro in portlaois and the drinks and food are really expensive

weemcd

i remember a few years ago the cinema ticket price rose to £2.50!, i was so pissed of at the, and now its i fiver, alfred hitchcock would be spinning in his grave

Caesar_Bojangle

Despite all the *scum who hang around it, i still reckon Dun Laoghaire to be quite good value. I think its priced around €5 or so. You should check the time crisis2 machine downstairs. I completed the game on €1, with my friend David but we only managed a pitiful 2nd place on the overall high score board.





*Some months back, with the aforementioned friend. We had some hours to kill before meeting our girlfriends in town, so we decided to go see some movie in Dun Laoghaire.

We were looking quite dapper - in scum talk blingin, so this goateed skanger decides to waltz over to us, and ushers us against a wall. He produces a five inch blade and tells us to hand over our phones and wallets as he had a knife, which he didn’t particularly wish to use, unless we defied him. The skanger was intently focusing on me for any sudden movements, due to myself being the taller of the two and most likely retaliate. My friend who stands a little over 5ft7, took his wallet and phone out, gesturing to the skanger that he was handing them over. Just as the skanger puts out his hand to receive them, my friend David (not maliciously but instinctively) head butts the skanger right in the forehead knocking him against the wall, then as he fell hitting the back of his head off the wall as he pounded the ground soaked in his own blood. I'm usually opposed to violence but that skanger received his just deserts if you ask me.

Makaveli

The IMC is well overpriced.
The student rate only works in a window of about 1 hour, 5pm-6 or something like that. Which is ridiculous.
Tickets cost €7.50 or something then.
They do alright deals on popcorn and drinks though.

Ponster

Thx for the link ObeyGiant to Threadkillers post. I never knew how it worked but knew there was a system somewhere behind it all.

I guess it explains why cinema viewing is so popular here in France.

In most large towns the cinema is controled by ither the UGC or Gaumont group. Both have loyalty cards which cost 20€ per month to buy. With this card I can go to as many movies a month as many times as I like.

This puts bums on seats and even an only average movie can have full houses where as if peeps hade to pay €6;50 euro each to see the same movie the place would never get the same amount of crowds. It meas that you get to see a wider range of movies too but only as long as you go 4 times a month to make the card worthwhile while is easy for those that are living in cities/towns.

Goodshape

Its STG£3 at the Strand Multiplex in Derry. I think thats the before-five price but the last bus home is at six anyway, so that's all I ever pay.

It's another stg£3 for a large popcorn and large drink.

Not too bad really (although their EUR to STG rate is a joke).

byte

I was charged €7 per head for a film in Bundoran Cineplex, Co Donegal.

It was €10.50 for large Pepsi, large popcorn, large crunchie bar and a "slushi" drink!

D-Generate

€5 for a student for anyfilm after 5 in cinemas in Cork. Before 5 and if the the film is under 18's then you can get in for €4, if it is over 18's or if you don't have a student I.D and it is after 5 the cinema is still only €6, not too bad.

mavedic

UGC on parnell street in dublin is great value. Its 5 eurons student rate at any time. They also have an unlimited card offer where you pay 16 a month and get to see as many films as you want, which is great value if you go to the cinema once a week or more.

The food in there is overcharged as expected, but they have cheap bottles at the bar and you are allowed to bring your own food in afaik. I've taken rolls, mcflurries and other food in there without any hassle.

Ponster

AFAIK taking food into a cinema is allowed (unless otherwise stated) but this usually only applies to drinks/sandwiches..

Nothing worse then rushing to the movies, not having time to grab a bite to eat and having to sit beside someone eating a Big Mc

weemcd

Originally posted by Caesar_Bojangle






*Some months back, with the aforementioned friend. We had some hours to kill before meeting our girlfriends in town, so we decided to go see some movie in Dun Laoghaire.

We were looking quite dapper - in scum talk blingin, so this goateed skanger decides to waltz over to us, and ushers us against a wall. He produces a five inch blade and tells us to hand over our phones and wallets as he had a knife, which he didn’t particularly wish to use, unless we defied him. The skanger was intently focusing on me for any sudden movements, due to myself being the taller of the two and most likely retaliate. My friend who stands a little over 5ft7, took his wallet and phone out, gesturing to the skanger that he was handing them over. Just as the skanger puts out his hand to receive them, my friend David (not maliciously but instinctively) head butts the skanger right in the forehead knocking him against the wall, then as he fell hitting the back of his head off the wall as he pounded the ground soaked in his own blood. I'm usually opposed to violence but that skanger received his just deserts if you ask me.

are you tellin the truth?, holy ****

KdjaCL

Ster Century its €5 for Adult about for med popcorn and drink.
So €11 for 2 hours entertainment now if the moive is good its worth it as with seating and general cleanness and sound and vision Ster Century is a actually a decent place to go to.

So i think thats a fair price but it usually hinges on the movie.

My only greivance with Ster is a lack of cult movies they have the resources to doa ninja night or weird african movie and if well run could get a lot of us nerds in at weird times to watch movies.

Good post tho on monies.
kdjac

Retr0gamer

I think Irish cinema prices are only beaten by the prices in manhattan, NY. They are $10 to get in. But with the exchange rate the prices aren't far off. Also as soon as you leave manhattan the prices drop dramatically.

Caesar_Bojangle

are you tellin the truth?, holy ****

Ja, i know loads of people who have been mugged, attacked or just out rightly abused by the skangers who hang around that cinema. Its a haven for skang

de5p0i1er

The prices are getting out of hand for food in cinemas every where. What can you do.

Blitzkrieger

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
I think Irish cinema prices are only beaten by the prices in manhattan, NY.

Not quite. I think the 'west end' of London would be the worst. I went to a matinee in a downmarket cinema on a Tuesday (their special low price day) at 12 noon. It cost £5, and £3.75 for a large coke. Probably about €7.50 for the lowest price ticket. And £5 will go a lot further in London than you'd think. Certainly much further than €7.50 would here, which coincidentally is what I usually spend on a trip to the cinema in Cork.

weemcd

Originally posted by Caesar_Bojangle
Ja, i know loads of people who have been mugged, attacked or just out rightly abused by the skangers who hang around that cinema. Its a haven for skang

what age were you, your friend is v. brave. youd have to be a right bastard to mug someone. how did you know he wasnt goin to stab you?

weemcd

i would of took the "skanger" outside and knocked the living **** out of him with my friend, (provided i was older i am just turned 15! but tell noone), and cut his clothes off with the knife and let him walk home.;) maby not

sceptre

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
I think Irish cinema prices are only beaten by the prices in manhattan, NY. They are $10 to get in.

Leicester Square first-run cinemas are about 12 quid for a regular ticket on a Saturday night.

Bannor

I was in Cork at the weekend and got to see a preview screening of Hulk for €4.50 (2.30pm screening).